Would you wish to be called Wildwood residents or The Village residents?
 

An Interesting article today in the other paper discusses a few Wildwood government officials concerns with the proposed building of around 800 homes by The Villages on the land north of 466A. They fear Wildwood would lose its identity and might then be governed by Village people.

That article is interesting in more ways than one. Looking forward to more details. It left me with a lot of questions.

Basically The Villages is a vanity address. Wildwood need not worry.

Village residents live in Lady lake (several thousand) but are still Village residents. I'm not sure where the Wildwood commission was going with this except to be posturing for "more" concessions by the Developer.

If they think some other Developer can do a better job developing this property, IMHO they are way way off base. The best thing that has happen to Wildwood in recent years is The Villages.

I have a friend who lived in the adjoining town to Princeton. They had a different zip code. There house was worth $250k. Their zip code changed to Princetons zip code and the house went up $50k overnight. It's funny how perception influences value.

YOU are one smart man. That is it in a nutshell, but there will be rumors and talk. Fruitland Park did the same thing, They know danged well which side their bread is buttered, or should.

It will be very good for them, indeed.

Watch and see a nice municipal building go up and some new jobs added to the municipality.

The map in the other publication did not seem to address golf cart access, which was also a discussion item in the article. This will be very interesting as Wildwood appears to want access to the rest of the city of Wildwood, and the villages tends (IMHO) to limit outside access. Then there will be the whole question of how to get golf carts across Powell and or 466a. This is going to be interesting discussion.

My answer to the question posed by the OP is The Villages. As an aside, I am not in the least embarrassed to say my Church is in Wildwood.

If I had wanted to live in Wildwood, I would've bought a house in Wildwood. I wanted to live in The Villages.

Read above Diane, Read above. We are all part of The Villages no matter what municipality we fall in.

Fruitland Park was going to "demand" a lot of things too, but we know that it will all be resolved because it is a huge coup to have this tax base.

I have no doubt, the address will be The Villages. As concerns will Villagers be running Wildwood Government, they probably would be if they didn't establish voting districts as Fruitland Park did and I am sure they will do.

I remember reading in the Leesburg paper the reader comments loathing the idea of TV building on the farm annexed by Fruitland Park and being built by TV now.

Readers and councilmen's anger and prejudice was (almost verbatim): "We don't want the vote in our city taken over by a huge new voting bloc of "old (gag) rich (gag) white (super gag) Re______ns (ultra-super gag)." (Don't shoot me. I'm just the messenger, and we know the left-right balance is not that bad.)

But in the end they probably like the millions in increased taxes on former unused agricultural/pasture land, which probably multiplied current city budget/revenues by 10, and schools--a mega expenditure--don't need to be built and funded for over 55 age group.

I think they'll take the tax revenue :icon_wink: …… and housing and economic growth.

Wildwood reminds of the city in Jersey that I vacationed at several times. It was a nice resort area.

I prefer "to be in TV", but that's me. :smiley:

(2BNTV) :D

I aaume you just mean the name. [emoji6]